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“Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.”

Needs May Wish Nature Periods Understood Essence Yield Incubation

Author:Paul Gauguin

“There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.”

Feels Mind Nature Mystery Essence Breathing Empires Majesty Provinces

Book:The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh

Source: The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh

“People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.”

People May Long Nature Born Dog Long Time Essence Cows Sooner Or Later

Book:Black April: A Novel

Source: Black April: A Novel

“Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.”

Law Energy Nature Health Creatures Essence Sickness Sensations Animation Equilibrium Methodical

Book:Essential Turgenev

Source: Essential Turgenev

“cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.”

Nature Cat Essence Clean Dirty Halls Pigs Marble

Book:Written on water: a novel

Source: Written on water: a novel

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”

Nature Existence Fate Summer Ideals Garden Essence Comic Tragic June Lyrical

Book:Animal Faith and Spiritual Life

Source: Animal Faith and Spiritual Life

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”

“...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .”

Nature Awareness Essence Sentient Beings Buddha Nature

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.”

Ifs Matter Whole Life Is Language Nature Fire Elements Essence Instruments Immortal Sparks Investigation Gross Animated Celestial Being There Indestructible

Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

“The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.”

People Real Able Form Energy Nature Habit Degrees Labor Essence Independent Active Superiors Artifice

Book:The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton

Source: The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton